The March for 'Science'

The trouble with the March for Science is that mixing politics and science is thoroughly corruptive for science, and marching is a quintessentially political act. The motivation for a large part of the march was for "climate change," and pushing that deeper into politics is the last thing it needs.

Berkeley's problem: who's in charge?

The university "cancelled" Ann Coulter's speech set for April 27 because "the police had 'very specific intelligence' of threats 'that could pose a grave danger to the speaker' and others..."

In other words, at Berkeley the mob's in charge.

Coulter has declared that she's coming anyway, which will put the university in a tough spot: if they actually physically stop her, it will show their hypocrisy all too clearly that their declarations to honor free speech are so much blather, not to mention the likely lawsuit by Coulter. They need to make arrests and follow through with prosecutions and serious jail time for rioters. Anything less and the anarchists will only grow bolder.

It's time for the authorities in Berkeley to grow a backbone and take charge.